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This amendment puts limits on how many terms a person can be president. This is good because if someone doesn't like the president that has been in office for two terms already, then once there term is over you can vote again. This satisfies the part of the country that doesn't want that person in office for what he/she believes in whats right for the country (Democratic Parties, and Republican Parties).


 * Section One:** This Amendment is about the fact that a person can only be president for two terms. Each term is four years. There has only been 1 president who went over this limit. That President was Franklin D. Roosevelt. President George Bush; was president for two terms, so he cannot run for president again.


 * Section Two:**The second part of this amendment states that three fourths of the country has to approve of this amendment before it can be a part of the Constitution.




 * The History of the 22 Amendment:**

After the Revolutionary War, George Washington was elected to be our first president in 1788. He established Federalists and Republicans (these where two earlier political parties, they had different ideas on how the country should be run). Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were the leaders of the Federalists and Republicans. Hamilton and Jefferson tried to convince Washington to extend his term as president. Washington announced near the end of his second term that he would be retiring. After Washington’s retirement, the transition of power to a new president went smoothly. Until, General Grant tried to break that tradition. But the public rejected that idea and so did Congress. 20 years later President Grover Cleveland attempted to gain his third time at running. But he failed in his attempt.

The 20th century noticed the challenges to the two terms. When Theodore Roosevelt campaigned for presidency in 1912, he argued that his first administration should not count after he became president upon William McKinley’s assassination and did not count this term as one of the terms that he had won on his own. Roosevelt won the Party but lost the race for president. Woodrow Wilson also thought that the Presidents term should be three and not two. He also failed in his attempts to run again.

Like Theodore had when McKinley died, Vice President Calvin Coolidge took over when President Warren Harding died midway threw his term. Then he won an election of his own. People wonder if he could be reelected. Supporters argued since he had served less than half of Harding’s Presidency. But the House of Reprehensive told him it would be best if he refrain from running for a third term.

Franklin D. Roosevelt broke the tradition!? Yes, he was the only president who broke our tradition of the two term policy. He led us out of the worst economic depression. With no clear successor, and Europe gripping the start of War World 2. Roosevelt broke the tradition. He was very determined to seek reelection. Roosevelt spoke about the war in Europe and won his third election! His wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, thought that it would be a bad idea for her husband to try and run for a third election. Despite the objections Roosevelt won the election. But then he was reelected in 1944 because of WW2 was still going on and America was still very much involved. Roosevelt did not live to see the end of World War 2. He died on April 12, 1945. This left the Vice President Harry Truman to serve out the rest of his term.

In 1946, with War World 2 over and an unpopular president in office, Republicans lead were vowed to take step to make sure that a president would never serve for more than 2 terms. On January 3, 1947 the 22 Amendment was introduced to Congress. After a period of debate February 6, 1947 every Republicans as well as some Southern Democrats voted for the Amendment of a limited on terms. The end vote count was 59 to 23.

Democrats opposed to this proposed amendment. They believed that that the people should have the power to vote whoever they wanted for as long as they wanted that person. The also thought that term limits would deprive the people of the most experienced chief executive.

The 22 Amendment was very popular with the Republicans. It was quickly ratified by most states with Republican-controlled legislators. North Democratic states rejected the bill. But the South Democratic states rejected the party's line and approved the bill. On February 27, 1951 the bill became the 22 Amendment. The amendment was totally ignored by the public and had taken much longer too ratified than another amendment in the history of the constitution!!


 * =And as Thomas Jefferson wanted all that time ago, that the two term tradition was finally apart of our Constitution!!!=

=1. Why is this amendment so important?= This amendment is important because without this amendment we'd have the same president running over and over again. This would be bad because if the same person ran over and over again they might become too powerful. They might even try to display new amendments to congress about small issues like driving while on a cell phone or not wearing a seatbelt. They would be ignoring big issues like wars or world hunger.

=2. When was this amendment ratified?= The 22nd amendment was ratified on the 27th of February, in 1951 by a large number of states.

3. Was there any president who was in office for more than two terms? Who?
Yes, there was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president for four terms, which is 16 years.

=4. How does this amendment affect us now?=

This amendment affects us today because George W. Bush cannot run for president again because he has already been President for two terms already.

=5. Who wanted this amendment ratified?= The states that wanted this amendment to be ratified was Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, New Hampshire, Delaware, Illinois, Oregon, Colorado, California, New Jersey, Vermont, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Missouri, Nebraska, Virginia, Mississippi, New York, South Dakota, North Dakota, Louisiana, Montana, Indiana, Idaho, New Mexico, Wyoming, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Nevada, Utah, and Minnesota.

=6. What problems lead to the creation of this amendment?= The problem was that George Washington didn't want to be president after his second term. He was asked to run a third time in 1796, but he made it very clear he did not want to be president for another term.

Current Events:
__Amanda's Current event:__ I read an article about Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the other candidates running for president and it tells polls of their votes, and I got it from this website, http://www.topnews.in/usa/polls-show-barack-obama-and-john-mccain-leading-new-hampshire-hillary-clinton-and-mike-huckabee-weak. It says how Barack Obama is taking the lead and Hilary Clinton is weakening. As Barack Obama was gaining the support of New Hampshire, Hilary Clinton was loosing support. In earlier polls Hilary was supported a lot by New Hampshire, but now Barack is in the lead. In these polls, in the lead is Barak Obama, Mitt Romney, John McCain, John Edwards and also Rudy Guliani, who has support from New Hampshire. This seemed to be changing for the better for Barack Obama after he won Iowa caucus. And Clinton seems to be 10 points behind Obama in New Hampshire.

I don't want Hilary Clinton to be president. Yes, it would be nice to have a woman president, but i don't think it should be her. I would much rather have Barack Obama as our president than Hilary Clinton. I don't know why, I can't pin point the reason, but I just don't like Hilary Clinton. I am still not sure who I want to be president, but I am leaning towards Barack Obama or Rudy Guliani because he was our previous mayor.

__Patsy's Current event:__

My artical is also about the president election. And how Fred Thompson may drop out of the presidential election to jion up with McCain. With the combined fundraising drought friends and advisers of Thompson say that he may pull the plug on hype and hope before the Jan. 8 New Hampshire voting. Wanna know more info. about this???

Cheek out:
 * http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7682.html

Also who's winning the election after the New Hamspire voting. If you are woundering whos winning the race so far cheek out
 * http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21229220/

__Joe's Current event:__ In a newspaper article I read, it was talking about the presidential campaign between Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. It was also talking about which candidate would be more fitting for the president of the U.S. It said that Hilary would care more about women and children and pay less attention to war and world hunger. While Barock Obama would stress on war and world issues. The reporters were asking each other who would have the peoples respect longer if president. Some said Hilary and some said Obama, but what president is really right? These candidates are both great but I still haven't decided which one is better and which one would last longer in office.

Here are some links:
 * http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am22.html
 * http://www.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/details_explanation.php?link=208&const=29_amd_22
 * http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp